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Old Feb 20, 2016, 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Bipolar Warrior View Post
I think this is a bit unreasonable. As a therapist you are working with vulnerable people, and these people depend on you. It's the nature of the relationship. So in my opinion the client definitely has the right to know if the therapist is having a baby.
I think that perhaps it wasn't clear from my post (I think it was, but then I know what I meant) that I was referring to the right to know that a T was "planning" on becoming pregnant, not that a T was "having a baby" as in already pregnant and comfortable sharing that information with clients, which is usually after the first trimester, which is exactly what the OP's therapist did. The right to know anything else is what I was referring to, and what I think was obvious from the OP and my post itself. I do not believe that clients are entitled to pre-notice of planned or unplanned pregnancies or anything else about a T's family. I don't have any problems with clients expressing their upset about a T's pregnancy or anything else that impacts them, but believing it's your right to be notified that you T may or may not have a baby in the foreseeable future is not correct.

I do not appreciate your shaming lecture about stating my opinion, which was just that, an opinion and not a truism. IMO what keeps the stigma of mental illness alive is the relentless entitlement that can sometimes be displayed by said group of people.
Thanks for this!
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